mammillaria
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English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
mammillaria (plural mammillarias)
- (botany) Any member of the cactus genus Mammillaria.
- 1841, John Claudius Loudon, The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement, volume 7, page 511:
- For some years back collections of mammillarias, from whatever parts of the world they came, were grown in our hothouses, and many of them are still kept there.